University of Minnesota School of Agriculture - Agrarian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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0 1 1 -H Y- - --4-- i -----f--A -----i-- -- - Y-- . -741 ---ef-J f' 7'7' r' 1' 1-Ti -- . 4 mfs c , .x, at J 1 ' ,-,s , I . . . ,Iv , 1' fb: DO YoU SEE? A fs, 1- i 'N Q A Message from W. C. Coffey, Dean and Director of the Department of Agriculture QQ -Q' Air, FEW' days before last Christmas, Professor Andrew Boss was in a store ,ffl '5 in Wasllington, D. C., looking for a certain toy for his little grand-daughter. Ei mf? After he had been searching about for a time, a clerk came up and asked whether she could be of service. Professor Boss told her what he was looking for. HUT DD? Here it is, said she. Well, I declare, said Professor Boss, it was almost under Lf my nose and I could not find it! I am just like you, said the clerk, I can't see -if, for seeing. The young woman's expression was quaint, but it contained much truth. ,gg Several years ago I saw the early morning sun spread gorgeous colors over :ff 'Qi the mountains at Needles, California. To a young sheepman, a graduate of an Jef testi eastern university, who was standing near, I said, Aren't the mountains beautiful? I suppose so, he replied, but I've worn out so many pairs of hob-nailed shoes 'aff ad: chasing after sheep over these hills that I can't see their beauty. I tell you they are ,'Q,'fE: steep in many places, the loose stones make the footing uncertain, and there are ii treacherous littleiravines in which it is easy to lose sheep. As a sheepherder this ,gg young man saw the mountains, but when it came to viewing them, as a lover of X natural beauty, he couldn't see for seeing. A11 he could see was their cold, forbidding, 'mf stern reality. But the beauty was there. I know it was, for I saw and felt it. Q82 Q: I wonder whether there are not all about usbeauties and satisfactions which we OM, IL., fail to see and enjoy because we give our attention solely to the difficulties we en- 32,3 count: Often I think this is true of farmers, and not without reason, for farming ti' undoi' itedly presents difficulties. But what a mistake we make when we cease to l Q C cultivate our power to comprehend and enjoy the beautiful things around us! For joy 'ielps to counterbalance our difficulties, and out of our joys and trials we build H up well-rounded philosophy of life which gives us a safe and wholesome influence among our fellows. E, I was not sorry that the young sheepman spoke as he did. Why? Because 'iff his remark made me realize that the mountains presented difficulty as well as 105 beauty, and I was more content that I otherwise would have been, perhaps, to go Q53 hack to the flat prairies of Illinois, more determined, too, to find and enjoy the Mu ,A beauty of those prairies. if 4 But the young sheepman also disappointed me. He was university trained, yet N32 he saw the mountains only as obstacles in his work, their beauties he did not see. if He couldn't see for seeing. Somewhere his university training had fallen short of i its possibilities. I I How is it with you? Has your training in the School of Agriculture increased 4331 1 1 your ability to see-to see not only the difficulties of your tasks but their compensa- JSC , tions, so that you may arrive at a Wllolesome, well-rounded philosophy of life? r C w.. 'rv Q ' 'f?3e2:1gfi4,fiz:fg x,21.ze,,,gg1Qffi'f M.. , i if 'l', iitkereiqg f' ei .fl if . Q -9? ffiiiic 'FELC9533-t'Vi'e???ii. ' 7 iT'h.T3-!L',...AlY Hoi 4. . ,.-f X .sg -, ,. A 1 ...J ' f me ' 1 -i . I I fa gf-vi ,L Q Page Thirty-two